Four-time World Champion piper Kyle Warren has returned to Scotland after spending five years in Australia teaching bagpipes at the prestigious Scotch College in Melbourne, and leading the Grade 2 Australian Champions, Hawthorn City Pipe Band as Pipe Major. Before emigrating, Kyle was a member of the Field Marshal Montgomery […]
Review by Chris MacKenzie • Greentrax Recordings, CDTRAX411 The first fifty four seconds of Kyle Warren’s Relentless CD sets down a marker, that what follows will not be a gentle stroll through piping’s gently verdant pastures. Instead, it discombobulates you into thinking you have slipped Megadeath into the CD. Slowly […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Kyle Warren and Field Marshal Montgomery celebrate their win at the World Pipe Band Championships in 2011. This win was part of a Grand Slam, with the band winning every major championship that season. Kyle recently launched a Crowdfunder campaign for his recording projects in 2022, […]
Kyle Warren has an exciting project this year to record an album with Greentrax, produce a music video for a single release and broadcast a live stream concert of the full album. The Crowdfunder page can be found here. As well as his busy solo projects, Kyle is playing with […]
Our article last Saturday, ‘Pipers’ choice’, about the pieces of ceòl mòr submitted at the Glenfiddich, has proven popular with readers. We noted, you will recall, that at the 1976 competition, the tune most commonly submitted by the pipers was Lament for Mary MacLeod. In joint second place came Lament […]
By Mark Stewart and Stuart Letford. In the decades ahead we will reflect on the last few years as being one of the most creative periods in modern bagpipe composition, albeit music that’s suited mainly to pipe bands and folk ensembles. Whether some of this new music will be played […]
The RSPBA has announced the dates for next year’s major pipe band championships. They are as follows: British Championships – May 22 at St James Playing Fields, Paisley, Scotland. United Kingdom Championships – June 12 at Lurgan Park, Lurgan, Northern Ireland. European Championships – June 26 at Bught Park, Inverness, […]
Kyle Warren playing with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers at Celtic Connections 2011
